October 27, 2011

Friday, 27 October 1911

Scott

A telephone line having been laid earlier between Cape Evans and Hut Point, someone now rang up to report trouble with the motors. Scott immediately took Wilson and six others out, only to find that rescue was unneeded.

Losing two days "just when we wanted them most of all for letter writing and final arrangements has been rather a trial," wrote Wilson in his diary. "A host of things have had to be left to the last moment and now it becomes a rush to get them done in time." [1]

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About this page

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions to the South Pole.

Scott's route

Amundsen's route

A Note on Dates

When the Fram crossed the International Date Line on the way South, Amundsen did not drop a day from his calendar. The Norwegian diaries from mid-January 1911 to late January 1912 thus were on "Framheim time", dated one day later than they should have been: that is, according to Greenwich Mean Time instead of local time. Amundsen noted this specifically in his entry for the Pole itself, headed "Friday 15 December (really 14th)". No little confusion arises in published sources as a result, and doubtless a number of inconsistencies appear on this page. (See the entry for 10 January 1911 for further information.)

Dates are here adjusted to one day earlier than written in the Norwegian diaries, for entries between 10 January 1911 and late January 1912. Bibliographic citations are as in the published sources.